this is also people disconnecting from politics in certain ways. how can you not be cynical when a few days ago, people were saying, you can t default on the debt, you can t, no way, it s not possible. now we re in this chicken race with the president to try to figure out how we can resolve the problem. and the bottom line is really the economy. people are figuring out this is not good for the economy. although i said to myself this afternoon, some of these tea partyers don t even understand how the female reproductive system works, so asking them to understand the global economy is too much. but it is the economy. you don t pull back on government investment at a time when the economy s very weak. you talked about the new normal, don t you think there s an acceptance on the american people s part of this bad economy, that they re coming around to the idea that there s nothing better out there. let me just hang a lantern on that. that is a profound point and it plays in all sor